I'm a San Francisco Engineer who is just about to celebrate 15 years at my current job with a major tech company. Prior to this I was at a small tech company for nine years. On the other hand, I'm OLD and would hate to look for work right now, regardless of my resume or contacts.
If they were a real CDN, customers publishing copyrighted content would violate the TOS and they would be turned off. The fact that they can't be bothered is a sign that they are willing to deal with anyone with a few bucks. If they do have terms that would allow them to turn off customers like this and they don't enforce them it is even worse.
Would it really have been that hard to embed the Wikipedia link in the article?
Sure I can look this some up, but someone is trying to explain it to me and its just one stupid link.
Re:I don't know if I fully agree with that
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I'd like to see them go back to being run by a "car guy."
A 'car guy' is not necessarily good at running a business.
I guess it depends on what you mean by a "car guy".
Running Ford is a very complex job - you have to make huge macro decisions years in advance of the end effect. For example, you have to decide all the details of all the cars you are producing today probably eighteen months or two years in advance. How many of each model to produce, design decisions for each car, etc. A "car guy" has a marginally better chance of creating an organization that will design a car that will be a "good car". The problem is that the CEO really has to delegate almost all of those decisions to the mid-level executives in the design and production groups. The CEO can work with other senior execs and the board of directors to say "next year, we will make a good profit if we produce X of model A, Y of model B and Z of model C and sell them at appropriate profit levels." Its up to others in the company to make sure that the cars are produced, that the dessigns are appealing and so on.
For what Cringley is talking about the auto industry is really a terrible example. The macro factors are so huge compared to most smaller tech companies. Care are a better comparison for either large tech companies like IBM or for tech work in "non-tech" industries.
Having dealt with someone this once before, the answer is to just kick them off the site. If they are not contributing anything positive then they have no business on the site. Even if they make positive contributions, if the net is disruptive then just give them the boot. Its your site and you have the right to kick them off.
I recall reading a Jon Carrol column in the SF Chronicle about mondegreens in about 1986. IT was at the least no later than 1987. And now that I look in Wikipedia, the word was coined in 1954:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
Some people just take a very long time to catch up with the cool kids:)
There is always software sales, if you can deal with the frat boys in the sales department. Our company (and many others) also has a "Professional Services" group that handles complex customer configurations - basically an in-house consulting group. They are tasked with gathering customer requirements, designing configurations, some light programming and debugging, and general customer hand-holding at a high level.
I suspect that what you really should have done is changed your major when you discovered that CS was not ideal for you - perhaps a double major in something you actually liked.
I visited Bletchley Park a couple of years ago while on a trip to England. it was an easy day trip from London. The site is a very short walk from the train station, so no driving or bus is necessary to get there. It was a beautiful spring day when we were there and the grounds are quite lovely. They had the Colossus replica running which was very cool. The museum is quite nice as well. Later that night I met up for beers with some guys from my company's London office. They were shocked that we had made a day trip to Milton Keynes until we told them why we went. Apparently Londoners think of the area as a bit of a suburban wasteland. I also got some cool semi-psychedelic pictures caused by a malfunctioning sensor in my digital camera.
I definitely recommend it as a place to visit if you have an afternoon in the greater London area.
You have this theory, but do you have any evidence at all to back it up? I was around in the early 70's, and don't recall *any* road signs indicating a metric speed limit anywhere. This includes a couple of transcontinental trips on major interstates. The only ones I recall seeing were in Canada, which of course used the Metric System. Seeing something in kilometers in the US would have been so unusual I have little dobt I would have remembered it.
I'm not sure why someone has to ask these exact same questions every time an electric car article shows up.
Yes, of course you have to recharge you car from the grid. The amperage required is not any more than typical household service, particularly if you are willing to let it charge overnight. 220 volts is even better than 110 for charging cars, and it really doesn't take more than your house already has.
As far as the generating issue, it is much cheaper and easier to clean pollution from a large single source than it is millions of mobile sources which are poorly maintained by their owners. Coal might not be that clean, but new coal-fired plants are better than old ones, and they are probably better than the number of gas powered cars it could replace. It is also more efficient, even with transmission losses, than the gas cars. Finally, if you want to make your power plant cleaner at some point in the future it is a bit easier than retrofitting a large number of cars.
These things have been discussed to death all over the net, you obviously have not read anything about this subject at all.
What, a Jewish liberal can't be a true patriot? What does his being Jewish have to do with his partiotism? You also insinuate that sending a liberal message is unpatriotic. That in itself is unpatriotic.
I think that anyone who has the guts to go on TV every night and skewer ridiculous rhetoric of modern politicians is a patriot. Most media people are much more interested in blowing smoke up their butts to make sure they cab still get interviews, and let the most obviously false or shaded statements go by without comment or challenge.
Stewart also regularly pokes at Democrats and other "liberals" The Republicans are in power and thus deserve and get more of his attention.
And I work at one (in the valley no less) Not only that, we are hiring:-) email me at MinusOne-1@hotmail.com (set up just for this so don;t bother spamming) and I'll send you details. Seriously.
I couldn't agree more. SF has bad neighborhoods, where I would not want to be alone on the street late at night. These neighborhoods don;t come close to bad neighborhoods I've been in in New York and Chicago. I was scared in broad daylight in the afternoon in those cities.
> I'm not too up on Windows but isn't FAT depricated?
Maybe for PC OSes, but have you used a CF or SD card in a digital camera? Or a memory stick? or any other small portable data container? They all use FAT32 or some related FS. The inneficeincies of teh format don't really apply to the media like that.
> "I only send them UP > It's not my business where they com down..." > -- Herr Doktor W.. Von Braun
Not a quote from the Werner Von Braun, but a quote from a song by Tom Lehrer: Von Braun, an ex-Nazi then employed by NASA. There is a story going around that Von Braun's widow sued Lehrer over this song, leading to his giving up satirical songwriting. This is probably an urban legend, but I'm not sure.
> Talk to your average user, I doubt they even know that the Office they're running which they borrowed off the neighbour is actually breaching the EULA. Again, the average user doesn't understand because they see it as a victimless crime.
I don't agree with this statement. I think that most people know that this is a violation of something (a law or license, or both.) The know that they should be paying for the software. They also know that they should be paying Microsoft for Office or Windows or whatever, and think that "Bill Gates has enough money already" It is easy for most people to justify not giving any more money to a company that is already one of the richest in the world. If it was only a few bucks to share an existing license with a second machine I think that most people would pay and MS would have even more money.
The cost of the hardware is less than $500, the MRC is about $50 for a high speed line. There is very mimal effort to keep it going and it does encourage customers to stay and drink more coffee. There was an article in the S.F. Chronicle a few months ago about this here. It is a pretty good money maker for a cage with good traffic and some net users but I don't think it will necessarily work for every little mom and pop. The tip jar will help close the gap if there is one, because most people will indeed tip for a service offered - not everyone is a cheapskate.
WWII was won by a combination of actions by all of the allies. Certainly the Soviet role in the victory is understated in American histories. But without the Americans and Britishs there is a good chance that Germany would have defeated the Soviets. Hilter also feared the British and Americans more than he did the Soviets, and held many of his best troops back from the Eastern front in preparation for the eventual battle for France. It is fruitless to speculate as to how the war might have gone if the Soviets had not been destroying Hilter's armies on the Eastern front. It is similarly fruitless to speculate about how the Soviets might have done without Americans and British bombing Germany, destroying the German air forces and tying up armies in Italy, France, North Africa and Greece. To say the Soviets won the war is similarly dishonest. The allies won the war, each making important contributions.
You should send it to spoof@paypal.com. They have an email address specifically for looking into these kinds of things. I send all of my fake paypal emails to them, so that they can catch some of these theives.
Re:What's with all of the bellyaching about speed?
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> Remember: Java is running on an emulation layer, so each instruction has to be executed twice. Once by the Java code, and once by the Java machine.
This is simply not true. Once the bytcode has been compiled by the JIT it is native machine instructions running without any intervention by the JVM. The Java app you describe is clearly a piece of crap, and probably would be no matter what language it was written in. I would go so far as to say that if it wasn't written in Java, it would probably be worse.
This is also known in the SF Bay area as "Casual Carpooling" Those who claim that it is some kind of security risk should know that in 20+ years of causal carpools this area there has never been a recorded incident of violence. I know people who have been soing it for over ten years, every day. The interesting thing is that it has grown on its own, with little government interference. The main thing the authorities have done is to make it difficult to park your car at the train stations and similar parking lots near the pickup points. (They reserve the parking for train commuters, of course.) At the Berkeley pickup points I know of, there are unwritten rules - no talking unless the driver starts the conversation, no smoking in the car, the radio is usually on NPR (no complaints allowed) etc. It is a system that really works, and takes advantage of the carpool infrastructure that has been built aroung the Bay Bridge and I-80. The carpool lane has lots of traffic here, and only a small minority are carpol violators.
Re:The article misses a few things as well.
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> What law is it, exactly, that stops you from buying wine from California?
Many states prohibit direct shipments of wine and other alcoholic beverages to individuals. This makes it difficult and frequently illegal to buy wine in California and have it shipped home, on the web, or via phone or mail. The purpose of these laws is to protect distribution monopolies or enforce moral codes. Since it is legal to purchase the wine, it should be legal to receive a shipment of it. The law mosly hurts small wineries who don't get big distribution, and wine lovers who don't live in states with a reciprocal agreements.
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Damn newbies, they ruined this place years ago!
I find that there are many more selfies than food pics, but both are easy enough to aviod
I'm a San Francisco Engineer who is just about to celebrate 15 years at my current job with a major tech company. Prior to this I was at a small tech company for nine years. On the other hand, I'm OLD and would hate to look for work right now, regardless of my resume or contacts.
If they were a real CDN, customers publishing copyrighted content would violate the TOS and they would be turned off. The fact that they can't be bothered is a sign that they are willing to deal with anyone with a few bucks. If they do have terms that would allow them to turn off customers like this and they don't enforce them it is even worse.
Would it really have been that hard to embed the Wikipedia link in the article? Sure I can look this some up, but someone is trying to explain it to me and its just one stupid link.
I'd like to see them go back to being run by a "car guy."
A 'car guy' is not necessarily good at running a business.
I guess it depends on what you mean by a "car guy". Running Ford is a very complex job - you have to make huge macro decisions years in advance of the end effect. For example, you have to decide all the details of all the cars you are producing today probably eighteen months or two years in advance. How many of each model to produce, design decisions for each car, etc. A "car guy" has a marginally better chance of creating an organization that will design a car that will be a "good car". The problem is that the CEO really has to delegate almost all of those decisions to the mid-level executives in the design and production groups. The CEO can work with other senior execs and the board of directors to say "next year, we will make a good profit if we produce X of model A, Y of model B and Z of model C and sell them at appropriate profit levels." Its up to others in the company to make sure that the cars are produced, that the dessigns are appealing and so on. For what Cringley is talking about the auto industry is really a terrible example. The macro factors are so huge compared to most smaller tech companies. Care are a better comparison for either large tech companies like IBM or for tech work in "non-tech" industries.
Having dealt with someone this once before, the answer is to just kick them off the site. If they are not contributing anything positive then they have no business on the site. Even if they make positive contributions, if the net is disruptive then just give them the boot. Its your site and you have the right to kick them off.
I recall reading a Jon Carrol column in the SF Chronicle about mondegreens in about 1986. IT was at the least no later than 1987. And now that I look in Wikipedia, the word was coined in 1954:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
Some people just take a very long time to catch up with the cool kids :)
There is always software sales, if you can deal with the frat boys in the sales department. Our company (and many others) also has a "Professional Services" group that handles complex customer configurations - basically an in-house consulting group. They are tasked with gathering customer requirements, designing configurations, some light programming and debugging, and general customer hand-holding at a high level.
I suspect that what you really should have done is changed your major when you discovered that CS was not ideal for you - perhaps a double major in something you actually liked.
I visited Bletchley Park a couple of years ago while on a trip to England. it was an easy day trip from London. The site is a very short walk from the train station, so no driving or bus is necessary to get there. It was a beautiful spring day when we were there and the grounds are quite lovely. They had the Colossus replica running which was very cool. The museum is quite nice as well. Later that night I met up for beers with some guys from my company's London office. They were shocked that we had made a day trip to Milton Keynes until we told them why we went. Apparently Londoners think of the area as a bit of a suburban wasteland.
I also got some cool semi-psychedelic pictures caused by a malfunctioning sensor in my digital camera.
I definitely recommend it as a place to visit if you have an afternoon in the greater London area.
You have this theory, but do you have any evidence at all to back it up? I was around in the early 70's, and don't recall *any* road signs indicating a metric speed limit anywhere. This includes a couple of transcontinental trips on major interstates. The only ones I recall seeing were in Canada, which of course used the Metric System. Seeing something in kilometers in the US would have been so unusual I have little dobt I would have remembered it.
I'm not sure why someone has to ask these exact same questions every time an electric car article shows up.
Yes, of course you have to recharge you car from the grid. The amperage required is not any more than typical household service, particularly if you are willing to let it charge overnight. 220 volts is even better than 110 for charging cars, and it really doesn't take more than your house already has.
As far as the generating issue, it is much cheaper and easier to clean pollution from a large single source than it is millions of mobile sources which are poorly maintained by their owners. Coal might not be that clean, but new coal-fired plants are better than old ones, and they are probably better than the number of gas powered cars it could replace. It is also more efficient, even with transmission losses, than the gas cars. Finally, if you want to make your power plant cleaner at some point in the future it is a bit easier than retrofitting a large number of cars.
These things have been discussed to death all over the net, you obviously have not read anything about this subject at all.
http://www.electroauto.com/info/pollmyth.shtml
What, a Jewish liberal can't be a true patriot? What does his being Jewish have to do with his partiotism? You also insinuate that sending a liberal message is unpatriotic. That in itself is unpatriotic.
I think that anyone who has the guts to go on TV every night and skewer ridiculous rhetoric of modern politicians is a patriot. Most media people are much more interested in blowing smoke up their butts to make sure they cab still get interviews, and let the most obviously false or shaded statements go by without comment or challenge.
Stewart also regularly pokes at Democrats and other "liberals" The Republicans are in power and thus deserve and get more of his attention.
And I work at one (in the valley no less) :-)
Not only that, we are hiring
email me at MinusOne-1@hotmail.com (set up just for this so don;t bother spamming) and I'll send you details.
Seriously.
> There are NO tough neighborhoods in SF
I couldn't agree more. SF has bad neighborhoods, where I would not want to be alone on the street late at night. These neighborhoods don;t come close to bad neighborhoods I've been in in New York and Chicago. I was scared in broad daylight in the afternoon in those cities.
> I'm not too up on Windows but isn't FAT depricated?
Maybe for PC OSes, but have you used a CF or SD card in a digital camera? Or a memory stick? or any other small portable data container? They all use FAT32 or some related FS. The inneficeincies of teh format don't really apply to the media like that.
> "I only send them UP
> It's not my business where they com down..."
> -- Herr Doktor W.. Von Braun
Not a quote from the Werner Von Braun, but a quote from a song by Tom Lehrer: Von Braun, an ex-Nazi then employed by NASA. There is a story going around that Von Braun's widow sued Lehrer over this song, leading to his giving up satirical songwriting. This is probably an urban legend, but I'm not sure.
> Talk to your average user, I doubt they even know that the Office they're running which they borrowed off the neighbour is actually breaching the EULA. Again, the average user doesn't understand because they see it as a victimless crime.
I don't agree with this statement. I think that most people know that this is a violation of something (a law or license, or both.) The know that they should be paying for the software. They also know that they should be paying Microsoft for Office or Windows or whatever, and think that "Bill Gates has enough money already" It is easy for most people to justify not giving any more money to a company that is already one of the richest in the world. If it was only a few bucks to share an existing license with a second machine I think that most people would pay and MS would have even more money.
The cost of the hardware is less than $500, the MRC is about $50 for a high speed line. There is very mimal effort to keep it going and it does encourage customers to stay and drink more coffee. There was an article in the S.F. Chronicle a few months ago about this here. It is a pretty good money maker for a cage with good traffic and some net users but I don't think it will necessarily work for every little mom and pop. The tip jar will help close the gap if there is one, because most people will indeed tip for a service offered - not everyone is a cheapskate.
WWII was won by a combination of actions by all of the allies. Certainly the Soviet role in the victory is understated in American histories. But without the Americans and Britishs there is a good chance that Germany would have defeated the Soviets. Hilter also feared the British and Americans more than he did the Soviets, and held many of his best troops back from the Eastern front in preparation for the eventual battle for France. It is fruitless to speculate as to how the war might have gone if the Soviets had not been destroying Hilter's armies on the Eastern front. It is similarly fruitless to speculate about how the Soviets might have done without Americans and British bombing Germany, destroying the German air forces and tying up armies in Italy, France, North Africa and Greece.
To say the Soviets won the war is similarly dishonest. The allies won the war, each making important contributions.
You should send it to spoof@paypal.com. They have an email address specifically for looking into these kinds of things. I send all of my fake paypal emails to them, so that they can catch some of these theives.
> Remember: Java is running on an emulation layer, so each instruction has to be executed twice. Once by the Java code, and once by the Java machine.
This is simply not true. Once the bytcode has been compiled by the JIT it is native machine instructions running without any intervention by the JVM.
The Java app you describe is clearly a piece of crap, and probably would be no matter what language it was written in. I would go so far as to say that if it wasn't written in Java, it would probably be worse.
This is also known in the SF Bay area as "Casual Carpooling" Those who claim that it is some kind of security risk should know that in 20+ years of causal carpools this area there has never been a recorded incident of violence. I know people who have been soing it for over ten years, every day. The interesting thing is that it has grown on its own, with little government interference. The main thing the authorities have done is to make it difficult to park your car at the train stations and similar parking lots near the pickup points. (They reserve the parking for train commuters, of course.) At the Berkeley pickup points I know of, there are unwritten rules - no talking unless the driver starts the conversation, no smoking in the car, the radio is usually on NPR (no complaints allowed) etc.
It is a system that really works, and takes advantage of the carpool infrastructure that has been built aroung the Bay Bridge and I-80. The carpool lane has lots of traffic here, and only a small minority are carpol violators.
> What law is it, exactly, that stops you from buying wine from California?
Many states prohibit direct shipments of wine and other alcoholic beverages to individuals. This makes it difficult and frequently illegal to buy wine in California and have it shipped home, on the web, or via phone or mail. The purpose of these laws is to protect distribution monopolies or enforce moral codes. Since it is legal to purchase the wine, it should be legal to receive a shipment of it. The law mosly hurts small wineries who don't get big distribution, and wine lovers who don't live in states with a reciprocal agreements.
I haven't seen one lower than mine in a while, but I don't read /. like I used to..